Food Therapy - by Luis Mojica (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Filled with accessible strategies to help you heal from within through the foods you eat, FOOD THERAPY explores the vital connection between nutrition, stress, and trauma recovery.

Food is therapy--and the choices you make each day impact your capacity to heal from anxiety, stress, and even trauma. Somatic Educator Luis Mojica offers a groundbreaking approach to eating to support the nervous system, adrenals, and glucose balance. When you learn how nutrition impacts your emotions and your body, every food choice becomes an opportunity to shift your biochemistry and support your goals. This knowledge can be incorporated into both therapeutic and personal practices, revealing how to:

• Learn which foods affect your fight-or-flight response.
• Replace judgment and shame with curiosity to reveal the unmet needs behind your food cravings.
• Avoid food-induced stress so your body can better handle life's ups and downs.
• Eat both processed and whole foods in a balanced way.

Neither a cookbook nor a one-size-fits-all diet of dos and don'ts, this book is a guide to becoming a conscious alchemist, deeply in tune with your body, using food as a medicine.

Review Quotes

"Food Therapy is a revolutionary guide that transforms the way we see food, shifting it from a source of control or comfort into a form of embodied therapy that reveals our cravings as messages from the parts of us still longing to be nourished, seen, and safe."
-- Dr. Nicole LePera, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek

"Luis Mojica's thoughtful animistic approach to food and healing flips the script on the old cliché 'you are what you eat' to show that what (and how) we eat powerfully reflects and affects how we relate to who we are. With a wealth of dietary knowledge, practical guidance, and beautifully personal stories from his many years of experience as both healer and healed, Luis encourages you to cultivate your own intimate, nourishing relationship with this core aspect of being alive. This lovely, timely, passionate book will help deepen your connection both to 'what you eat' and to 'who you are.'"
-- Daniel Maté, co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Myth of Normal

"Luis Mojica exposes the intimate connection between our food choices and our unhealed wounds. With profound insight and practical wisdom, he shows us how to use food as medicine for the nervous system, not just the body. This book will revolutionize how therapists, nutritionists, and individuals approach healing from the inside out."
-- Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH, national best-selling author of The Biology of Trauma
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Food Therapy is a sacred invitation to return home to the messages of our bodies. Luis Mojica weaves embodiment, trauma healing, and reverence for the intelligence we carry in our blood and bones. This book is a gift for anyone wanting to meet themselves with more presence--a tender ceremony of wholeness and love."
-- Asha Frost, Indigenous Medicine Woman, author of You Are the Medicine

"Luis Mojica is a true maverick in his field. This book will unsettle, awaken, and expand what you believe is possible in the realm of using food to recover from stress and trauma."
-- Africa Brooke, internationally acclaimed speaker and author of The Third Perspective

"Luis Mojica weaves together the often-separated worlds of nourishment, trauma, and embodiment into a seamless and compassionate human narrative. Food Therapy expands the field of trauma healing beyond the psychological and into the realm of the tangible and lived. It restores agency to those who feel powerless against their symptoms and offers practitioners an embodied framework for supporting genuine transformation."
-- Maureen Gallagher, PhD, Somatic Experiencing faculty member and International Focusing Institute trainer

"Luis has illuminated the truth of food as a sacred ally in healing trauma. Nourishment shapes our nervous system, our emotions, and our capacity to feel safe in our own skin. With tenderness and insight, he helps us remember that healing begins with how we feed ourselves."
-- Sah D'Simone, best-selling author of Spiritually We

"Luis Mojica has delivered a revolutionary and deeply necessary perspective on trauma and healing. A must-read for anyone on a healing journey, offering actionable, supportive wisdom on nourishing the body back to a state of safety."
-- Unique Hammond, holistic nutritionist and creator of The Bean Protocol(TM)

"Luis Mojica presents a paradigm-shifting perspective of the profound connections that exist between food, the mind, and the nervous system, guiding you to reconnect with your inherent nutritional intelligence and reclaim agency of your body. If you want to understand how food can support your healing and growth after trauma, Food Therapy is a safe place to start."
-- Timothy Frie, DMS, MS, CNE, founder of the National Academy of Neuronutrition

"Wise, grounded, and deeply informed, Food Therapy is an invitation to come home to yourself. With the humility and heart of someone who's been through the deepest struggles, Luis Mojica shows how food and feeling are intimately connected--and that your best teacher is you."
-- Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

"Food Therapy is a road map for awakening to the interconnected nature of what we consume and the parts of ourselves we are working to heal. Luis Mojica demonstrates how attunement, building trust within our internal landscape, and presence bring the felt sense of liberation through food."
-- Dené Logan, author of Sovereign Love

About the Author

Luis Mojica is a Somatic Educator, certified in Holistic Nutrition, Somatic Experiencing, and Life Coaching. With years of experience working at the intersection of trauma and healing, Luis has become a sought-after teacher and speaker in his field. He reaches thousands of students annually through his online courses and webinars, and hosts the Holistic Life Navigation Podcast.